{"id":80949,"date":"2018-07-26T07:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/liquid-water-on-mars-really-for-real-this-time-probably"},"modified":"2018-07-26T07:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:02:34","slug":"liquid-water-on-mars-really-for-real-this-time-probably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/liquid-water-on-mars-really-for-real-this-time-probably","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Water on Mars! Really for Real This Time (Probably)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-water-on-mars-really-for-real-this-time-probably.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A radar instrument on one of the oldest operational Mars orbiters has discovered possible evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid water on Mars? Again? Yes, again. The announcement came at a press briefing held by the Italian Space Agency in Rome, concerning <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2018\/07\/24\/science.aar7268.full\">a paper published today in Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How is today\u2019s water-on-Mars hoopla different from all of the past announcements? In brief: the evidence is from a new instrument, examining a new location on Mars, and it\u2019s the first place we\u2019ve seen evidence for a present-day body of water that is liquid and stays liquid. For years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2018\/liquid-water-on-mars-really.html\">http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2018\/liquid-...eally.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radar instrument on one of the oldest operational Mars orbiters has discovered possible evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars. Liquid water on Mars? Again? Yes, again. The announcement came at a press briefing held by the Italian Space Agency in Rome, concerning a paper published today in Science. How is today\u2019s water-on-Mars hoopla [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}